Quotes About Tension

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

Near a war is always not very near.

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.